Question : Reporting Service 2008R2 - High availability scale out deployment with hardware load balancer installation

Hi,

We have requirement for scale-out deployment of SSRS. I have given provided environment details below.

I am using hardware load balancer so do I need to follow this document? "Configure a Report Server on a Network Load Balancing Cluster" (Link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281307.aspx)

I want to install just reporting service on each report server. From SQL Server installation Center which setup option I should choose?
"New Installation or add features to an exisitng installation" or "New SQL Server failover cluster installation"

To configure reporting service for each Report Server I think I need to use "New Installation or add features to an exisitng installation" with files only mode (Feature selected: reporting Service,Management Tools) by following this document link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159114.aspx to install, configure and join instances.

Environment: SSRS Scaleout deployment with High availability and Failover clustering

Report Server 1 : Windows Server 2003 R2 64bit, SQL Server 2008 R2 64bit (Install only Reporting Service)
Report Server 2 : Windows Server 2003 R2 64bit, SQL Server 2008 R2 64bit (Install Only Reporting Service)
Both report servers connected with database servers

Database Server 1 : Windows Server 2003 R2 64bit, SQL Server 2008 R2 64bit (Install only SQL Server database to host Reporting database)
Database Server 2 : Windows Server 2003 R2 64bit, SQL Server 2008 R2 64bit (Install only SQL Server database to host Reporting database)
Both database servers is a part of failover cluster and connected to san storage

Windows Clustered.
Hardware load balancer is used between client side firewall and Report Servers 1 and 2.

 

Answer : Reporting Service 2008R2 - High availability scale out deployment with hardware load balancer installation

>>  after restarting gets an error  System.ArgumentNullException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

This is because your file is blank and ReadLine() returns nothing, so null is being passed to Long.Parse(). You should consider checking the return of ReadLine() for null before passing to Long.Parse--even if you get the logic working correctly.

>>  it all works except when it tries to write to the file nothing gets written

What kind of app is this? A windows service?

>>  what os are you using

XP